#that was a tangent lol oops

[geniusphilester]

honestly i think a lot of us gays feel like that about marriage in my experience. like of course we want the right to marriage, but it's common to not really care about it because of the baggage and history of it.

i feel like dan for sure, i just don't see a wedding as a necessity, i just want a commited life partner :)

(marriage talk)

speaking as a queer that will probably never get married but thinks the option to legal access is vital: i get it! i bet dan's relationship to marriage as a concept is very complicated in a number of ways, both personal and political (again, hoo boy, do i get it). that dan wants to make sure everyone understands that he doesn't want to get married or believes in soulmates but manages to still convey that it's not remotely because of his connection to phil for either of those stances...it's one of my favorite things, honestly

[liaisun]

Hii, I was wondering where did Riko being 19 at death came from? I understand if it's a headcanon but I've seen a couple other people mention this and got confused, since what I got from tsc was that Jean was younger than Riko and Kevin and had to get in college earlier because of them...

hi!! riko's age isn't known exactly, but nora said he's 5 years younger than ichirou, who is 24. so going by that timeline, riko is either 19 years old, or 20 if he has an early birthday! that's where it comes from

in the original aftg trilogy, jean was actually intended to be older than riko and kevin, around 23ish if i remember correctly. however when writing tsc, nora decided to change his age and have it confirmed that jean is 19. we also don't know jean's birthday at this point, so it could be that jean has a later birthday in the same year as riko, or that he has an early birthday in the year after, so they both happen to be 19 even though jean is younger.

also jean's schooling timeline could be altered considering he's from france. in the US it was pretty common to put someone one grade year behind in school than their age group if they had recently immigrated and didn't speak english. i believe this was before ESL programs (example: happened to my uncle in the 70s lmfao) but considering everything, i doubt jean got an ESL education even if it was available bc tetsuji didn't give a damn abt him besides exy 😭 anyway, that's another angle to why jean could be considered as entering college early besides his age

[frogprincesnowglobe]

One of my favorite Henry (Or Henry and Walter) moments is this very very in the background scene from Season 1 Episode 3 at 33:50. It's right in between Simon heading off to meet Wille to stay for the weekend and in the middle of Wille texting Simon. For some reason that will never make sense to me the English subtitles call Henry Vincent and then call Walter Henry in this scene, but it's Henry and Walter for sure, lol.

In the English dubs:

Henry: Well, here's the thing, our parents knew each other growing up.

Henry: They dated for a year [unintelligible because some background boy talks louder] before...

Walter: Wow, that's crazy! I had no idea.

Henry: No, I know.

Walter: How long have you known?

Henry: I know-- I know because my like my dad recognized your last name so he like, he like asked me if, if I know your or your family.

Walter: Oh! Okay.

Henry: Yeah I know.

Walter: That explains why there was [unintelligible because someone who sounds very British randomly says what sounds like "bloody vibe" over the top lol]

Henry: Yeah it's really like, like they knew each other

I can't speak Swedish so I don't know what the Swedish version says and the subs stop to focus on Simon and Wille texting (as you do, haha). This is one of my favorite moments though because it's so in the background and just a cute little moment between two friends. It also kind of seems like they're adlibbing here maybe? This is just after parents day and unless I missed it we don't actually see Henry or Walter with their parents.

But we really don't get a lot of information about most of the side characters, and here we have Henry and Walter telling us that their parents knew each other when they were younger and that they even dated each other for a whole year? I need to know everything!

Also it gives me so many plot ideas, maybe not even for the show but for fanfic or something. Like Henry's parents and Walter's parents are divorced and then Henry and Walter become stepbrothers when their parents get back together, or what if Henry's dad and Walter's mom had Walter and then at the same time Henry's dad and mom had Henry and they're half brothers.

[camellcat]

I keep thinking about this one fic, where amy gets sent back in time to the beginning of s1 by a weeping angel, and like. idk. I want to see clara in s1. idk how'd she get there. probably some wackiness of converging timelines or whatever since we already know she's, like, woven throughout his entire life. but I just wanna see her reaction to nine and rose. specifically nine. and then seeing how different s2 ten is to ANY doctor she's ever known. I want her there!!! plus her and rose would be best friends SORRY I keep saying it but it's TRUE

[glitterslag]

hey i just wanted to say that i think about your spooky Appalachian folk fic every single day. it was genuinely one of the most hauntingly (in every sense) beautiful pieces of writing i have ever read. your command of the characters and landscape is just so divine. anyway. please write more for the bear if you feel like it, i will be first in line. or even just share the wildest headcanons you have, i want to pick your brain about the whole show. hope u had a good day today!

OH YOU ARE A SWEETHEART thank you so so much!!!! 🥺💕💕 kissing you big..

I do actually have a couple WIPs rn!

It's funny bc I'm really struggling to leave my spooky universe alone... I have way too much fun writing about it and now I'm done with the main plot I wanna have fun writing random deleted scenes, hopefully to post soon! 🫣 And I have another sydcarmy wip that's completely new too :)

[steampunkedparm]

something something please dont ask me "are you sure your asexual??" when i sometimes talk about the possibility of having sex

YES!! I AM STILL ASEXUAL!! EVEN IF I EXPRESS THE DESIRE TO HAVE SEXUAL ENCOUNTERS!! EVEN IF I MAKE SEX JOKES (damn near all the jokes i make, mind you)!!

asexuals fuck. asexuals dont. what does and doesn't go on in someones bed is none of your fucken business unless. you're. in. it.

[fideidefenswhore]

In August 1525 the king granted him the honours, castles, rents and other hereditaments which belonged to the king's paternal grandparents, Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond, and Margaret Beaufort, as well as those that had previously belonged to Margaret Beaufort's father, John Beaufort, Duke of Somerset. In addition to this, the boy received a number of fine properties, including his great-grandmother's favourite residence of Collyweston.

Bessie Blount – Mistress to Henry VIII, Elizabeth Norton

[firegiftlouis]

Do you think the show will ever explore how Louis’ family found out he was gay?

No idea honestly, and tbh I’m not sure they’d really need to necessarily? It honestly doesn’t take much for people to start speculating irl. All it takes is not living up to the performance of straight masculinity for people to start wondering even now but especially back then, and I get the impression Louis always struggled to live up to those standards. There’s also the fact he and Jonah were childhood friends so it wouldn’t be too surprising their families felt they were “too” close as they got older.

I’ve seen a fic or two where he and Jonah are discovered or rumored to be fooling around and that’s how they learn it, and while I don’t mind that idea, I kind of like how the show alludes to the less dramatic side of that coin, where everyone could tell there’s just something “different” about Louis possibly before even he knew, and they just keep it as this open secret of sorts that they’re willing to ignore about Louis as long as he isn’t open about it. It’s a depressing dynamic but it’s one that happens a lot 😔

[immortalled]

also. just. on that last post’s note...

i love that nathan loves his power, too. his relationship with it isn’t a healthy one--he abuses it, lets it lessen the meaning of his deaths both to himself and the people who love him, and he attaches an extremely unhealthy importance to having a “really cool power”--but he loves being immortal.

i’ve sort of come to terms with the idea that some of the christmas special could be plausibly in-character (just... wow, not that fast, and not in that very exact circumstance), and it is kind of hilariously nathan to sell his immortality for cheap because he let himself be snookered into accepting a lowball offer, and it is, actually, pretty in-character for him to be willing to sacrifice something he loves for someone he loves without giving any real forethought.

but i think the situations where nathan would give up immortality are so specific and so rare that it’s almost impossible. and he would likely regret it later, even if he felt good about his decision in the moment.

there’s too much manic love for being an unkillable, chaotic pest in the universe lmao and, as in the last post, too much love for living.

[piduai]

yeah I agree, tsurumi mogs makima both writing and design wise. anyways, I wonder why GK isn’t popular at all in the west though, it’s unironically soooo good. It’s one of the only modern shonen/seinen animangas I’ve been able to get into in the last 8 years.

ok but to be fair what was the last seinen that got *mainstream*? in the west... or even in japan. things that become super viral here are either shounens or otaku shit. over the course of the last 8 years at least; when i came here it was towards the end of snk's popularity (shounen) but it was still everywhere. then it got replaced by love live (otaku), then by touken ranbu (otaku). then... wow i do not remember 2016-2020 at all... anyway kimetsu no yaiba (shounen) was a positive explosion, perhaps the craziest thing i've witnessed like it was EVERYWHERE. then jujutsu kaisen (shounen) was there briefly... then it was madness with spy x family (shounen). now that tokyo rangers or whatever (shounen) thing is everywhere. like most of the time it's a shounen jump series. things that were/are wildly popular in the west? from what i can judge it's like... naruto, snk, bnha (all shounens). opm used to be crrrrrrazy popular (shounen). uh, haikyuu? maybe? both shounen and otaku. i really can't name a seinen that would actually be overwhelmingly popular, even berserk was never a first choice darling, it's a cult classic but more people know of it rather than have read it. seinens are just generally heavier which is like raid for mainstream popularity, most people just want to have fun while watching a cartoon, not like get into characterization or themes or whatever. so it's always gonna be shounens. that being said, while gk is actually extremely popular in japan with manga appreciators (it will never be *mainstream* but it's genuinely beloved, has a dedicated fandom, and is considered a qualitative work), it does seem to be underground even outside of jp... what can i say. not everyone can be OK with bearfucking i guess

[hpdgirlfriend]

🥘: also about ur tags i saw on ur answer to the recent ask i sent… yeah that’s pretty familiar to me😭😭😭 (even if it’s off topic) i remember dramatizing a bunch of stuff as a kid and making up the stories’ intensity just to get ppl’s reactions… and then i just Do Not thinks abt it bc i just go… Hm… perhaps I Will Not talk abt it. Maybe

(rambly here, feel free to delete if anything i say bothers u, don’t worry)

also also. it sucks there isn’t a lot of resources to even like talk abt this and my own experiences, bc at the surface it’s only for attention seeking!! but it’s not at all like that. like i desperately just. Want connection and also not for people to leave me, and that also has me like… change what im into / what i like… kind of often, and it just makes me want to punch myself so much; even putting the symptoms into easier terms makes it feels like… Ok Yeah I’m not normal!!!

i often feel like im faking things, but yknow? it just generally sucks bc i won’t be believed! even if im w/ ppl im comfy w/ and see them as friends, I feel like im just deceiving them and being a huuge imposter lol. while im trying to more or less accept that im… not really that great at the whole acceptance thing for myself, i think learning and seeing how much me and other ppl’s experiences overlap in some ways helps me out so so much lol!!! like!! I’m not alone in that sort of feeling if that makes any sense

anyways i hope however u r doing, hope ur doing ok :)!!! cheering u on

omg yeah yeah i mostly didn't realize i could make things up as a kid but i used to just like.. say something and then be like omg u will Never figure it out :3 n then no one cared so i would give clues or just say it so they would pay attention to me and i'd get a reaction..... but i wanted them to be so invested in me they would detective it :/ smh i had to do everything myself . actually i still do this EHEJKFMD & yeah i totally get all of that! :( it's really hard. i actually made this blog mostly to see if people would relate so i could have that connection & feel like i'm not alone... i rlly enjoy when people leave tags expressing in some way that they feel the same or they get it..! it's also bcuz you know like attention haha but the whole thing attention boils down to is wanting to feel valued and loved and connection w people anyways & thank you!!! i hope you're doing good too :-) ♡♡♡♡♡ may u have a day filled w happiness & warmth & people u love complimenting you

[undyinglantern]

watching this to figure out exactly how far I got without having to read dozens and dozens of episode summaries and kinda surprised I barely got more than half way

[bighandsforabigheart]

I love how crazy AA2 is

The first case is literally like “damn we gotta explain how court works again but this time the MC knows what he’s doing so how should we do the tutorial” and the solution to it is “oh let’s hit him with a fucking fire extinguisher and give him amnesia and make him part of the case”

The antagonist is a literal child that physically abuses everyone including the Judge just to get everything her way. She’s terrifying.

And the dude the players saved in the previous game (and why AA is a thing in the first place) is apparently dead. Dead. Gone. Players wondering for the first three cases on where he is and he’s just. Dead. And you probably know he’s not literally dead but now you’re taken back by how overdramatic the typically dry MC is. “Should’ve stayed dead” after everything he’s done in the previous game is so. Being pissed that the man looked up to ran away instead of accepting your help is so. So gay.

God I love how Phoenix was pissed that Edgeworth returned a year later fully recovered without help, without his help, when you know Edgeworth was thinking about how he could become the man fit to stand against Phoenix the entire time he was gone. Phoenix’s idolization of Edgeworth and Edgeworth’s determination to be worthy of Phoenix’s support is what drives them and that’s why they’re literally soulmates.

[sunlightfeeling]

Proceeds to play Flow on infinite loop

[babacontainsmultitudes]

I'm not the first person to bring this up but, I do feel that the general response to the gun range scene has mostly failed to acknowledge the context that would call for such extreme levels of self-defense training in the first place. We know from episode 23 that even just a few years after the release of the doodler (when Lark and Sparrow themselves are still just teens) things are already pretty bad (to the extent that in Lark's case the stress of it all has already begun to take a physical toll on him- don't forget that he and Sparrow too were once kids who had the world placed on their shoulders), and one need only look at how quickly the situation with the mayor has degraded to imagine how bad things would have gotten by the time Hero was 12. Training your six-year-old to use a gun in a normal or at least mostly normal world? Batshit crazy. Training your six-year-old to use a gun in a world overrun by an eldritch horror where danger, death, and the possibility of corruption from said eldritch horror are around every corner? Still intense but, much easier to understand the reasoning behind.

oh oops it's a long post woops woops woops

In Sparrow's case in particular, we know that he behaves quite differently under alternative circumstances, and that Normal (Hero too for that matter) lives a pretty different life in a post code purple world:

Not that it hasn't been Sparrow's intent and priority to mitigate the extent to which Normal was caught up in everything from the get-go, as evidenced by his namesake. Recall what he had to say on the matter:

In some ways this extreme self-defense training is a "two sides of the same coin" sort of deal vis-a-vis Grant's extreme isolation of Lincoln for his protection, a major difference being that Lincoln still deals with this in a post code purple world (to the extent that he literally had to pretend to starve himself to get his dad to let him go to public school), whereas Normal and Hero get the chance to live mostly normal lives and do as they please (the disapproving words of a drunken and partially-doodlerized Sparrow aside), now removed from the immediate threat of the doodler.

Hero's case is, at least from what we currently know about the prophecy, more complicated than Norm's. It is easy to reprimand Lark and Sparrow as being the worst parents (and/or uncles) whilst forgetting that their circumstances are fundamentally different from the other kiddads. The first half of this lying in their shared responsibility (and guilt) in releasing the doodler. Grant and Nicky can retreat to their respective homes on the basis that this is the best they can do, resolving to put their energy into protecting their closest ones first and foremost. At the end of the day, they aren't really any more responsible for dealing with the doodler than any other bystander. The same cannot be said of Lark and Sparrow, who can't exactly look away from the fact that they were the ones who brought the doodler into the world. At least from their perspectives- of course Lark (and Sparrow by extension) in reality was a child that was manipulated into doing what he did, which as some people have pointed out is not dissimilar to what happened to Normal at the end of this episode (and if Sparrow felt the need to rid Normal of his memories of this event in particular, perhaps it was to spare his child from feeling guilty about it for the rest of his life).

The second half of what differentiates them is, of course, the prophecy (right- now we can actually get to Hero lol). We must remember that, as far as the twins knew, the only way to actually "defeat" the doodler permanently was through the chosen one, i.e. Hero (probably- after last episode I'm starting to think that Norm may be more directly involved in the prophecy than previously thought, but that's a tangent). "Continue to let the being you released into the world kill and torture millions (very likely billions) of people, which could wind up including both of your children, or put your ill-fated child through very intense and ultimately traumatizing training to put an end to it, potentially losing her in the process", is essentially the choice the twins were given. Hero isn't made to kill a deer with her bare hands for the hell of it, she goes through what she does because Lark (who likely did not see the same thing that Normal did on the throne- or at the very least interpreted things very differently) and Sparrow had no reason to believe that there was any other possibility. This certainly does not negate or undermine the extent to which Hero was deeply traumatized by it all, but it's not exactly a detail that you can choose to ignore when discussing the ethics of Lark and Sparrow's decision-making.

And yet, despite it all, Sparrow and Lark do ultimately chose saving their children over saving the world. Not before significant damage has already been done (to Hero that is), but they do decide to go through with the one plan that allows both of their children to (hopefully) live a doodler-free life: code purple. Code purple, which ultimately reduces to a trolley problem with a presumably near-equal number of people on both tracks, with the important difference of sparing their own children in one case, and likely not the other. And if we want to talk about Henry's ethical stance in the matter and how it compares to the twins, we need to consider what it says about him if he was *not* in favor of code purple, with all of this in mind. Not to come to any hasty conclusions about Henry either- I think there remains too many unknowns on that front to assume much and... Ultimately it's a complicated matter! But that's kind of my point.

Even post code purple, Lark and Sparrow (and the rest of the kiddads) try to pursue that which they believe (or at least hope) will both put an end to the doodler without involving their children and without the enactment of the prophecy. Is blowing up an entire world with the sun to save all the others a plan I'm gonna sit here and defend? I don't think so lol, but you can't exactly look at it and pretend that Lark and Sparrow don't care about protecting their fucking kids.

My point isn't that Lark and Sparrow haven't made a lot of mistakes and questionable decisions, my point is that their circumstances are so much less black and white than the majority of the takes I see on them make them out to be, and a lot of the conclusions I see people jump to when it comes to the twins' feelings and intentions strike me as... Pretty odd? Tangentially-related: if you don't think Sparrow is someone who is affectionate with and deeply loves his kids despite his flaws, I don't really think we're listening to the same podcast. But even in Lark's case, yes he's more subtle about it and yes, Lark can be quick to anger (not that I personally read him yelling in the last episode as anger so much as panic but all the same), but affection can be sewing bulletproof material into your nephew's mascot costume, or secretly taking him out for pizza, or pretending to be his dad so that you can tell him you're proud of him, or putting your gun down when he asks you to. The twins are anything but perfect but, fuck if they aren't trying (and changing, and improving). And yes, they deserve some damn nuance.

Also, okay, I couldn't really find a neat way to bring this up in the above but, speaking of no-nuance and bad faith takes, can we talk about the locks? Or lack thereof, rather. "How could they be so stupid as to leave the door unlocked?" you're right, that does seem odd, and Anthony made a point to explain that every other door was very thoroughly locked, and Normal seemed to have practically been moved into opening the door against his own will so... Hear me out, maybe, just maybe, the door usually *is* locked??? And something fishy or unusual is afoot? I also wouldn't take their immediate, knee-jerk reactions to a dangerous flesh monster being released to come to any conclusions on whether or not Lark and Sparrow "blame" six-year-old Normal for it. In Sparrow's case, I struggle to even imagine it. In Lark's case, though I wouldn't put him above getting angry over it, my doubts on his deeper feelings are still high. Conversely, if he actually did place some of the blame on Normal, at the very least there is an interesting discussion to be had on how this relates to Lark's own guilt over what Willy manipulated him into doing, and subsequently being denied the catharsis of punishment. But I'm getting ahead of myself. Like I said, a lot of important things are yet unknown.

*breathes* okay end of overdue ramble [insert proper conclusion paragraph here lol], thank you.

[banamine-bananime]

AITA for trying to save my friend and keep the rest of my asshole friends safe from their bad decisions?

I (M26) just went through this real shitty breakup. So basically, my ex C (M lmao man fuck if i know his age idek if knows it. or has one i guess) has this god-fucking-awful habit of deciding to solve every problem by dying about it and/or fucking off without so much as a word to the people unfortunate enough to give a shit about him, except maybe his sister (unhelpful for the rest of us because she also inherited the "fucking off without a word" gene. man fuck this whole family for making me care about them. whatever). Also, killing himself inside peoples brains thats like a whole hobby for him. like okay either ghost us OR kill yourself in front of us altering the trajectory of our lives forever PICK ONE like a NORMAL person.

Okay wait im not explaining this well. So years ago C and W (M37 now) were partners but C was, uh, in a really bad place mentally (S is telling me this is more diplomatic to say than "crazy af") and that situationship ended as badly as a situationship can end. I mean W's told me he pretty much had his sense of identity as someone separate from C totally destroyed by that for a while, which like, in hindsight its kinda an accidental dick move that our team made him take C's legal identity, but in our defense a) the fuck were we supposed to know?, b) tbf he really did need it not to go back to prison, c) it's not like C was using his identity, on account of the fucking off and effectively-dying-as-a-solution habits, and d) i mean. i gotta admit it's also pretty funny in a really fucked way.

aw shit derailed on a tangent again

recently its just like, we just get so focused on one thing its hard to remember anything else, you know?

S is so good at getting us back on track though. thank god because you would not believe the number of irons weve got in the fire to keep track of, its ridiculous. (i love making my partner be the planner in the relationship lol. highly recommend being a passenger princess in the body sometimes. fuck massages, i'm telling you THIS is what you need after a long day getting shit DONE and taking care of everyone else's messes)

So I met C 6 years ago, right out of basic, when we were privates stationed at the same base. middle of nowhere. shit, this is gonna be hard to explain, just realized i should use different names for C to keep them straight. I knew "A" and W knew "E", i didnt meet E until years later. theyre alters and also the same guy but also not the same guy. dont worry about it if you dont get it bc ive dated both of them and i dont think i do. my life is stupid.

Bunch of bullshit happened, A ghosted (lol. you'd be high-fiving me if you knew him) and then found a problem to solve by dying. you get it by now.

Then i meet E, E encounters a problem and tries to die about it round one (i guess round two, after exploding in W <- LOL. you should be high-fiving me right now), E's sister drags him back to the land of the living, E ghosts, W and i start dating, W tries to martyr himself and disappears because i guess E rubbed off on him (dude i am on a fucking roll. you should be high-fiving me out of pity for my glamorously miserable soap-opera life if nothing else. homophobic not to), our team gets W back, E strolls back like he has no idea why im mad at him, we fight about it, makeup-makeouts about it, and E tries to die about it round two: in my brain boogaloo.

So thats how S and i meet. oops, guess i never introduced S? Feels weird to have to introduce ourself twice, people dont really meet us separately anymore LOL. S (M, ageless) is also C's alter, my partner in life and badassery and brain and body. and obviously freaky sex stuff, that goes without saying but i'm saying it anyway to brag. the swish swish to my stabbing people who really deserve it. Not really interested in your opinion on our relationship, it's not what i'm asking about. we're aware its not conventional, because we're not fucking braindead. Im so sick of all the "oooohhhhh this isn't healthy", "he's a male manipulator and youre codependent i know bc i learned psychology from tiktoks by girls with green hair", "why are you wearing your ex-boyfriend's armor colors while wearing his dead ex-boyfriend's armor while dating and sharing a brain with your dead mutual ex's alter", "have you considered going to therapy instead of a quest against death itself" blah blah blah. If youre so bored you need to judge our life then just get your own 🙄🙄🙄

we've been really on that sigma grindset the last few weeks. S has got our sleep optimized down to a tight triphasic 3.46 hours and we're minmaxing the fuck out of the rest of every day. Biohacked to shit over here. too much to do, so we have to make there be enough of our time to do it. who else is gonna? my teammates? the REDS? we're half batman half babysitter to a gaggle of idiots who can barely be trusted to wipe their own asses, let alone fight their own battles and make decisions like "wah wah wah A is dead let's just give up and cry about it or whatever".

Don't even get me started on W. Oh youre all about character-building wake up and grind self-improvement and taking leadership until we're making decisions you dont like, i guess. WHATEVER. this is why we dont listen to you.

its hard, okay. like, you cant understand the sheer fucking stress were under trying to keep all our plans going smoothly while keeping these guys safe while they're basically actively trying to unravel every carefully-laid thread and also strangle themselves in them. im probably going prematurely grey and also losing some time. its hard to remember when we need to hold back and use the kiddy gloves. i really didnt want to come to holding - uh, we'll call him MC (M25) - by the throat, passed-out. he's like a brother to me, been through thick and fucking thin together, so yeah, i feel really bad about that, my bad, we were the asshole there, but like, maybe stop throwing yourself in the way? like run out into the road you're gonna get hit by a truck no matter how hard they slam the brakes. mfw the conses quence. but im NOT asking about that. everyone's been on our dick about "please god stop doing all of this" and abandoning A and trying to break us up way before that, and THAT'S what im asking about

Anyways tl;dr are we the asshole for getting shit done when it takes methods that all our monday morning quarterback friends dont like

_____

OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might be the asshole:

it really was a dick move to dangle my teammate's limp body in a chokehold even though it was basically an accident and also not even directly relevant to the question

OP has offered the following explanation for why they think they might not be the asshole:

okay but we're right